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From: brian@ucsd.Edu (Brian Kantor)
Newsgroups: comp.dcom.lans,comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Xerox Etherphone experiments?
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Date: 17 Dec 89 04:28:12 GMT
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Not directly relevant, but it's proven to be quite easy to wire a
telephone handset to my SparcStation and talk across the building over
the ethernet using the CODEC chip that's built in the SS1.  The delay
is a bit like a satellite link and completely controllable by adjusting
the buffering size.  It even has sidetone.

It's lots of fun to rcp into a coworker's machine and suddenly his
workstation starts saying "Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas
anymore!"

Anyone attempting to do this as a serious hack must consider a squelch
algorithm so that you're not sending lots of zero-volume packets across
the Ethernet.

No doubt I'll soon get a nastygram from someone for adding to the
traffic on the internet....
	- Brian